About Kai Schreiber Expertise Mostly questions specific to vision science and eye movements, with some expertise in general neuroscience and cognitive science. Strongest background in mathematical theory, modelling and the theory of perception, but I will try to answer anything that comes my way.
Experience Postdoc in Vision/Oculomotor research.
Organizations UC Berkeley
Publications Journal of Vision, Nature, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Enginerring
Education/Credentials Dipl Phys (Universtität Tübingen), PhD (Physiology, Univeristy of Toronto), Graduate Program in Neuroscience (University of Toronto)
Expert: Kai Schreiber Date: 2/12/2007 Subject: ciliary body
Question dear
as we know when ciliary bodies contract the ligaments will get looser and lens tend to rise its globe shape so we can see things that are not far from our eye, either as we know ciliary bodies are radial muscles, how contraction of these radial muscles will diminish the distance between the ciliary bodies and lens that makes the ligamants looser?
please help me with this
thanx alot
Answer Hello Mohammad,
the ciliary muscle actually is a ring surrounding the eye, so when it constricts, it releases the tension of the ligaments and allows the lens to bulge. Conversely, when the ciliary muscle relaxes, the ligaments pull on the lens, flattening it.
